{"product_id":"9781555978075","title":"Priest Turned Therapist Treats Fear of God: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Hoagland’s verse is consistently, and crucially, bloodied by a sense of menace and by straight talk.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy heroes are the ones who don’t say much.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey don’t hug people they just met.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey don’t play louder when confused.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey use plain language even when they listen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWisdom doesn’t come to every Californian.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChances are I too will die with difficulty in the dark.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you want to see a lost civilizaton,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewhy not look in the mirror?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you want to talk about love, why not begin with those marigolds you forgot to water?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—from “Real Estate”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTony Hoagland’s poems interrogate human nature and contemporary culture with an intimate and wild urgency, located somewhere between outrage, stand-up comedy, and grief. His new poems are no less observant of the human and the worldly, no less skeptical, and no less amusing, but they have drifted toward the greater depths of open emotion. Over six collections, Hoagland’s poetry has gotten bigger, more tender, and more encompassing. The poems in \u003ci\u003ePriest Turned Therapist Treats Fear of God \u003c\/i\u003eturn his clear-eyed vision toward the hidden spaces—and spaciousness—in the human predicament.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47030707585264,"sku":"9781555978075","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781555978075_p0.jpg?v=1763755692","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781555978075","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}